Green Data Center Market in North America 2010-2014
Analysts forecast the Green Data Center market in North America to grow at a CAGR of 26.2 percent over the period 2010–2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the need for...
View ArticleDon't Write Off HP And Yahoo Just Yet
Leadership is the main issue with both companies. Yahoo is searching for its seventh CEO since 2007 and already has told 2,000 of its 14,100 employees, or about 14 percent, they’ll need to move on. HP...
View ArticleBlades vs. standard racked servers for virtualization
There are some battles that are not worth fighting. Blades vs. standard architecture servers is one of those battles, yet it rages on. There are some battles that are not worth fighting. Blades vs....
View ArticleApple's data center in Maiden gets approval for fuel-cell plant
State officials on Wednesday gave Apple the go-ahead to build the nation’s largest privately owned fuel cell facility at a data center that the iPhone maker is claiming will be the world’s greenest...
View ArticleWould Quest buy help Dell?
Dell may buy Quest Software in a bid to bolster its overall software management play, according to a Bloomberg report. Quest makes management software and tools that could help Dell to become an...
View ArticleDisruptions: Facebook Might Have a Smartphone in Its Future
This past week, Google completed its acquisition of the hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which could lead to the search giant’s making its own smartphone. But another software titan...
View ArticleHP Promises Zero Energy Data Centres
Analytics and job scheduling can alter a data centre's energy demand, says HPHewlett-Packard has promised to produce an architecture for data centres which need no energy.HP Labs has published details...
View ArticleHewlett-Packard Shows Off Green Data Center Plan
The research arm of the US based technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has unveiled new architecture for a data center that requires no net energy from traditional power grids. Cullen Bash,...
View ArticleHP unveils mobile computing powerhouse
Hewlett Packard introduced the EcoPOD, the engine that will drive data centers for businesses that are strapped for space, need to lower energy costs and want more computing power. Ken Gray, HP vice...
View ArticleHP, Dell Roll Out 'Bulldozer' Servers
AMD is unveiling five new Opteron server chips – including two more 16-core processors – that the chip maker said will appear in systems from Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The new processors – three from...
View ArticleHewlett Packard and Other Companies Deploying Zero Carbon Data Centers
I am pleased to see that several companies are starting to recognize that building zero carbon data centers is a more sustainable direction rather than focusing on energy efficiency (i.e. PUE). As...
View ArticleBits Blog: Whitman's Simple Vision: Hewlett-Packard Has Work to Do
Meg Whitman has a clear vision of Hewlett-Packard making radically new consumer products. She sees it selling cloud computing technologies that she hopes will attract fast-growing start-ups to the...
View ArticleDell Challenges Cisco, HP With Converged Data Centre
Dell executives are leveraging recent acquisitions in the networking and storage space to deliver a converged data centre solution to compete with competing offerings like Cisco Systems’ successful...
View ArticleDell Expands Storage Portfolio With New Compellent, EqualLogic Offerings
Dell is expanding the capabilities of its Compellent storage platform, including a new Compellent unified NAS-SAN offering and expanding its Fluid File System to the Compellent portfolio. The new...
View ArticleeBay to build huge Bloom Energy fuel cell farm at data center
eBay just one-upped Apple's data center fuel cell farm. On Thursday the commerce giant announced that it is building additional capacity at its data center in Utah and it plans to power that new...
View ArticleData Center Operator QTS Names Senior Executives to Drive Growth Strategy
Data center operator Quality Technology Services announced on Wednesday it has named veteran technology industry executives Dan Bennewitz and Jim Reinhart to senior executive management roles. The move...
View ArticleAmazon outages — lessons learned
Two big Amazon outages over the past month certainly got everyone's attention. Here are three tactical measures cloud users should take to minimize damage from future cloud computing snafus. Broadly,...
View ArticleApple's Clean Energy Promise Draws Greenpeace Skepticism
The environmental group Greenpeace has issued a report raising questions about Apple’s commitment to using 100 percent renewable energy sources to power its facilities, particularly a new data center...
View ArticleVMware, Nicira and the Data Center
VMware said yesterday that it will acquire open networking company Nicira for $1.26 billion in a move that furthers VMware’s vision for a “software-defined data center.” The deal focused attention on...
View ArticleIn Google's Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women
At Google, data is king. Now the company is using data to figure out if it can anoint a few queens. The company hopes its famous algorithms can solve one of the most vexing problems facing Silicon...
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